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About the role
Altera is seeking an experienced and hands-on Security Operations Center Lead to lead and mature our global security monitoring, detection, incident response, and cyber defense capabilities. This role will be responsible for day-to-day SOC operations, alert triage, incident escalation, use case development, playbook execution, threat monitoring, and operational reporting across enterprise IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application environments.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or SOC leadership
- 3+ years of experience leading SOC analysts, incident response teams, managed security operations, or cross-functional cyber defense workflows
- Strong working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud security monitoring, identity security, email security, network security, and incident response processes
- Demonstrated experience building or improving detection use cases, alert triage workflows, response playbooks, escalation procedures, and SOC metrics
- Experience coordinating investigations involving phishing, malware, endpoint compromise, suspicious authentication, privileged access misuse, data exposure, and cloud security events
More about this role
Altera is seeking an experienced and hands-on Security Operations Center Lead to lead and mature our global security monitoring, detection, incident response, and cyber defense capabilities. This role will be responsible for day-to-day SOC operations, alert triage, incident escalation, use case development, playbook execution, threat monitoring, and operational reporting across enterprise IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application environments.
This leader will partner closely with security engineering, infrastructure, identity, cloud, IT operations, legal, privacy, product security, and managed service providers to ensure security events are detected, investigated, contained, and remediated effectively. The ideal candidate combines strong technical security operations depth with leadership discipline, process ownership, and the ability to drive measurable improvements in detection coverage, response quality, automation, and operational resilience.
- Lead daily SOC operations across monitoring, alert triage, investigation, escalation, incident response coordination, and operational handoff across global time zones.
- Own and mature SOC operating procedures, including...
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